(All characters, organizations, places, entities, and events...)
(in this drama are fictional.)
I'll keep you safe until the IPO.
He says he'll keep you safe until the IPO today.
Thank you.
(The Cursed)
(Final Episode: Jong Hyun)
(Joongjin Daily)
- Reporter Park. - Ma'am.
- I said to just call me Jin Hee. - Yes. Jin Hee.
Aren't you on vacation?
What happened to your face?
What?
This? It's nothing.
- Do you have it? - That's right.
We can cover the IPO. Do you want to go yourself?
You know I've always been interested in Forest.
They were super strict with the press cards.
Not many were handed out for people from the press.
Thanks. I'll do a good job.
See you after your break.
- Okay. - Bye.
And take care of yourself.
Hey, Woo Chan.
You know right?
That you're a great journalist.
You sound like I'm never going to see you again.
Here.
Okay.
Hold on.
- Put this on. - What?
Wear this.
Okay.
It looks good on you.
- Do I look like a reporter? - No.
That color looks good on you.
I didn't know since you always wore the red hoodie.
Okay.
Are we going now?
That's right.
Let's end it today.
Are you ready?
(Entrance)
(Forest Initial Public Offering)
Sir?
Hi, Ms. Choi. Thank you.
Do you need things like this for an IPO these days?
Shall I compare it with other IPOs?
According to the data...
Ms. Choi. It's fine. You can stop.
So this is the tree.
(Forest Initial Public Offering)
You don't see Jin Jong Hyun, do you?
I don't think he's here yet.
Jin Hee.
That tree...
What?
Do you know what it is?
No, I don't.
Hey. Go.
I said to take her home safely, you jerk.
I'm sorry, sir.
Let's go somewhere else.
What's wrong?
What is it?
It's the guard that I saw at Mount Cheonbo.
I think he recognized me.
Where is he?
Over there.
Let's go somewhere else. This way.
Act natural.
Ms. Im!
Mr. Kim.
That's right. I heard you were promoted to section editor,
Ms. Im.
Yes. Thank you.
Ms. Im, should I call you "Editor Im" now?
Ms. Im is fine.
Sure, sure, sure.
But...
Quite a taste Chairman Jin Jong Hyun has.
It's the IPO of the nation's top IT company,
and he puts on this strange ritual show.
He should've just hired some dancers to dance to silly music.
Who's this? A rookie?
Yes, she's a new intern. I'm teaching her the ropes.
Jin Hee, we have to go.
Excuse me.
We shouldn't get too close.
Okay.
(Forest Initial Public Offering)
We have an hour left.
My client confessed.
What more is there to ask?
I have just a few more questions.
You know he isn't obliged to answer, right?
Yes. He can answer if he wants,
and not if he doesn't.
Ask me anything you want.
There isn't much time left anyway.
I wondered why your company, Forest, would break the law...
and do this.
First. You know Min Jung In, who used to be on your coding team.
Why did you people...
abduct and torture Min Jung In?
What did he do that was so wrong?
I worked for Forest, Chairman Jin Jong Hyun's company,
in a department in charge of coding.
They...
suddenly fired me, saying they were restructuring.
It started with you people firing Min Jung In,
and abducting him...
because he was angry at you.
But it's hard to believe you did all that...
just because he wrote an angry post.
Clearly, he knew something,
and you were afraid...
he'd tell people.
Forest isn't that different from other social media networks...
like Twitter and Instagram...
if you remove the Forest of Curses.
You people methodically replaced the coders...
and tried to vitalize the Forest of Curses. Correct?
Sure. That's quite interesting.
At first, I thought your company abducted and murdered...
Detective Yang Jin Soo...
because he found out about the manipulation.
But I was wrong.
Recently,
they wanted to know how Min Jung In's case was progressing,
and...
when Kim Ju Hwan died, his autopsy report,
photos from the scene, things like that.
And...
that Jin Soo...
that Jin Soo had the fountain pen cap.
This is where I was stumped.
I thought the point was, you had the coders...
manipulate the hashtag.
But you abducted Detective Yang Jin Soo...
because he had the fountain pen cap?
That made no sense.
What are you getting at?
Get to the point.
It makes no sense logically,
but considering all the circumstances until now,
let me guess what your plan is.
Chairman Jin Jong Hyun...
is possessed by an evil spirit.
And today, that evil spirit that's in Chairman Jin...
On the day of the IPO, he's going to move his spirit into Forest.
On the day of the IPO,
it's going to move into Forest itself.
That's why you bought all those talismans...
through the Jinkyung Corporation.
If he moves his spirit into Forest tomorrow, you and I,
and the tens of thousands of people tagged in the Forest of Curses...
will die all at once.
After moving into Forest, that evil spirit...
will kill everyone tagged in that Forest of Curses...
that you people manipulated. Why?
Because that evil spirit loves cursing people.
It's satisfied by acting out the curses people put on each other.
No, no.
Hatred, which exists in everyone.
That is the evil spirit controlling Chairman Jin Jong Hyun.
Thus, once Forest's stocks are publicly offered,
countless people will die at the same time.
Bravo.
You've figured out something tremendous.
Listen. Please stop already.
I'm flabbergasted.
You're flabbergasted?
Sure. It is hard to believe.
However,
you have been helping...
Chairman Jin Jong Hyun do this outrageous thing.
So? What are you getting at?
Someone I know said...
this case...
can only be solved by believing...
this outrageous concept.
It's starting.
Lee Hwan.
Do you believe that the evil spirit inside of Chairman Jin Jong Hyun...
will move into Forest and kill countless people?
Do you?
Does it matter whether or not I do?
It does to me.
I'll ask you again.
Did you help Chairman Jin Jong Hyun knowing that?
Or did you think he was seriously delusional,
and only did it because it profited you?
Captain.
I think only about whether or not something benefits me.
I don't think about stupid things.
Really?
So it didn't matter to you.
However,
you'll have to think about...
whether or not you believe it.
Because I tagged you on the Forest of Curses.
(Lee Hwan)
Okay. Now, test your faith.
Forest will go public soon.
Once it does, will you die...
or not?
Tell me the head of coding...
in charge of manipulating the Forest of Curses.
Who's the one manipulating...
the Forest of Curses?
Tell me. I'll let you speak to that person.
You'll have to tell that person to remove your name quickly.
What will you do?
Who's in charge of the coding team that manipulated the hashtag?
What's wrong with you people?
You don't have to put up with this insult.
Let's go.
Noh In Sup. The manager's name is Noh In Sup.
He's the one in charge of manipulating the hashtag...
Forest of Curses.
Call him and ask where he is.
(Noh In Sup)
Hello? Mr. Noh? It's Lee Hwan.
Yes, sir.
Where are you?
I'm in the office.
Hey! I'm calling because...
my name is tagged in the Forest of Curses!
Remove it right now.
What? That can't be.
What do you mean, that can't be? My name is there! Check!
My name is there right now!
Remove it right now! Hurry!
Yes, sir. Just a minute.
Hello?
Did you remove it? Did you?
- Sir. - What?
You're not tagged on the Forest of Curses.
What?
Let's go to Forest.
- Yes, sir. - Let's go.
What's going on? What's this then?
Photoshop.
What, you jerk?
You believed that the evil spirit would kill countless people,
but you helped him anyway just for money.
Why you little punk.
How dare you trick me?
How dare you trick me, you jerk?
Between Jin Jong Hyun and you,
which of you is the real evil spirit?
What?
You jerk!
There he is.
Isn't that Jin Jong Hyun?
Let's start.
(15th Graduating Class Jin Jong Hyun)
Set the force field!
Die.
Our kiddie performer.
Did you come to do a procedure on me?
Die.
What do you know?
If there was an evil spirit in you,
she would've killed you.
Die.
Die!
Strengthen the force field!
So Jin.
What a show.
We're late anyway.
Come out. Let's hang out.
We are meeting up with the others later.
Are you cold?
Want to go play with Mommy?
Hey, I'm sick and tired of my family too.
They're not family.
What have my mom and dad ever done for me?
It's so annoying.
When will you ever shape up?
Do it right, will you?
Why won't you listen?
Do you know what you're doing?
You're making all of us look bad.
Seriously. Why did we have to get someone like you?
Mr. Noh In Sup?
Yes. And you are?
You are under arrest for fabricating and inducing...
cyber defamation.
You have the right to an attorney.
- What are you doing? - Stay calm.
Hold on. Wait a minute.
I only did as I was told.
Sure. Okay.
- I only did as I was told. - Let's go.
- You can talk at the station. - Let's go.
I don't want to talk at the station.
- What are you doing? - Let's go.
People are watching.
- Sure, sure. - What's going on?
- You need to tell me! - Let's go.
Out of my way!
10! 9! 8! 7!
6! 5! 4!
3! 2!
Where...
Where am I?
So Jin.
So Jin!
It worked.
The host has died.
The spirit has switched hosts.
(Jin Jong Hyun)
Jin Hee.
Why hasn't So Jin been coming to school?
Right?
It's kind of boring without her.
Captain.
(Dumplings and steamed buns)
What's going on?
So Jin.
Do...
a procedure on me.
Please.
Please. Now.
If you perform a procedure first on that evil spirit's target,
you will take the lead.
What about you?
You said before...
That you and I...
share a common fate.
that I'm a righteous person.
Do...
a procedure on me.
A manager who had started at the Finance Department with me,
said something strange.
That Forest has a strange subsidiary.
(Joongjin Daily)
Im Jin Hee.
You said you'd protect me.
You said you'd protect me. It's all your fault.
It's all your fault!
All of it. It's all your fault.
Im Jin Hee. It's all your fault!
It's all your fault!
You.
(42nd President Kim Ju Hwan)
- Hello? - Hello?
Say it now if you don't want to die.
Jin Hee.
Say what they're telling you to say.
I wish...
you'd just die.
Jin Hee.
You are...
my one and only friend.
I was very happy...
I had you.
It isn't your fault.
I'll save you.
It'll all...
be okay now.
So Jin!
Mommy!
Hey!
So this is where you were.
You witch. How dare you curse me?
Try me! Try cursing me!
Try cursing me.
You can't hurt me.
Don't hit my mommy.
I did that.
- What? - I cursed you!
Don't hit my mommy!
Darn it!
Darn it.
You. You'd better watch it. Got it?
Mommy.
My baby.
Come here.
It isn't your fault.
Come here.
Mommy.
Mommy!
Why do people hate each other so much?
Why do they want to curse each other so much?
The evil spirit in my heart...
likes the curses people cast on others.
When people curse others,
I can hear my heart enjoying it.
I can't do a procedure on you.
I'm finally connected to that evil spirit.
Jin Hee.
I'll hold onto this evil spirit forever.
So...
please...
wake up now.
So Jin.
So Jin!
So Jin! No!
Wake up!
(Jin Jong Hyun)
- Oh my gosh. - Thank goodness.
- Oh my gosh. - Don't cry.
- Good girl. - She's so adorable.
You're okay.
Sir.
The inugami disappeared!
Jin Hee.
Are you okay?
This way.
- So Jin! - Jin Hee.
Is he on fire?
What was that just now?
What...
So Jin!
So Jin! No!
No!
Hey.
- Get an ambulance! - Yes, sir.
So Jin.
So Jin!
The next item.
The initial public offering of Forest...
has been canceled.
Forest had manipulated content...
inciting hatred in order to gain popularity.
Chairman Jin Jong Hyun is accused of several counts...
of kidnapping and assault.
Mr. Lee Hwan, a junior director at Forest, confessed...
that he acted them out upon Chairman Jin's orders.
Mr. Lee Hwan is being detained by the Prosecutors' Office...
and is awaiting trial.
Meanwhile, Chairman Jin Jong Hyun, who had ordered all of it,
died mysteriously on the day of Forest's initial public offering.
The police has been unable to determine his cause of death,
and closed the case as an unexpected death.
However, according to many witnesses,
Chairman Jin Jong Hyun had performed...
a mysterious shaman ritual on the day of the public offering.
Are you ready?
Yes.
Let's go.
(Naeun Children's Home)
(Welcome to Naeun Children's Home)
According to the doctor who comes regularly,
her brain function is normal, and she's fine physically.
Then why isn't she waking up?
Exactly.
He says he has never seen anything like it.
He says there's no reason for her not to wake up.
It's been a month already.
We'll keep monitoring her,
but we don't know what to do.
She probably won't wake up.
What?
So Jin...
is holding onto that evil spirit.
I'm sure...
she'll try to keep holding onto it.
Sung Joon.
Can I...
Can I get a minute alone with So Jin?
Okay. Sure.
Thanks.
I remembered...
this color looked good on you.
I hope you like it.
(So Jin)
(Get better soon I miss you)
(I hope you'll wake up soon)
(I like playing jacks with you the best. Play with me soon.)
So Jin.
You have to return...
to being an ordinary kid.
I'm sure...
your days...
will be very ordinary, unlike the days...
you've lived all your life until now.
Soon or later,
you'll forget these horrible things that happened,
and like everyone else,
you'll finish school,
become an adult,
and fall in love with a person...
No.
One isn't enough, right?
Anyway,
those silly things...
will stress you out and hurt you.
You'll laugh and cry.
That time will come.
When it does,
I want...
to be a friend that talks about those silly things with you.
So...
let's talk about those things.
Even if something does happen again,
there are countless good people...
in this world who can help you.
So...
please don't...
Don't try to bear it all alone.
I'll be back.
Next time,
tell me whether or not you liked this outfit.
Thank you, So Jin.
(The Cursed)
(Thank you Kwon Yul and Lee Kyu Ho for the cameo.)
(Thank you for watching "The Cursed".)